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Second suspect in ‘horrific’ office-park slaying killed by police

San Jose police shot and killed a murder suspect Monday night, less than a day after officers killed another man they were investigating in the same homicide, authorities said.

The slain suspects — and a third who remains at large — killed a man last week after “terrorizing him,” San Jose police Sgt. Enrique Garcia said at a late-night news conference.

The latest shooting occurred around 7 p.m. in south San Jose, as officers with the police SWAT team chased a man wanted in connection with Thursday’s slaying of 38-year-old Christopher Maxwell Wrenn of San Jose.

Wrenn was shot at an office complex on Lundy Avenue in the city’s Berryessa neighborhood after “a horrific encounter” in which three men were seen on video “terrorizing” him, Garcia said.

The killers were armed with a handgun, a Tec-9-style assault rifle and a third weapon “which I’m not going to talk about at this time,” Garcia said.

The sergeant did not go into details of what was on the video, but said, “I can’t imagine what that victim was going through as they were terrorizing him before they killed him.”

The man shot to death by police Monday night had threatened to kill a woman who had information about the killing, authorities said.

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The SWAT officers began chasing the suspect and the woman as they rode in a car. The suspect crashed and fled on foot, Garcia said. Police shot him at Kirkhaven Court and Stonyhaven Way when he reached for his waistband, Garcia said.

On Sunday, police tracking another suspect in Wrenn’s slaying shot the man after he brandished a gun at them, police said.

San Jose police have fired at suspects on two other occasions in the past week that were unconnected to Wrenn’s killing. A stabbing suspect was shot to death by officers while he was armed with a meat cleaver, police said, and another man shot himself to death with a shotgun after officers opened fire on him.